Current Visitors

Long Term Visitors

Stefan Haller - University of Vienna - 8/25/11 - 9/25/11
Eric Babson - UC Davis - 12/7/11 - 1/14/12
Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu - Columbia University - 1/8/12 - 1/13/12
Matthias Lesch - Universitat Bonn - 1/1/12 - 1/16/12
Avraham Soffer - Rutgers University - 3/5/12 - 3/31/12
Allan Pinkus - Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - 4/15/12 - 4/28/12
Sui-Cheong Lau - Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) - 4/23/12 - 5/1/12
Florin Radulescu - University of Rome Tor Vergata - 5/4/12 - 5/31/12
Andrew Salch - Wayne State University - 5/12/12 - 5/26/12
David Edmunds - University of Sussex - 5/16/12 - 5/25/12
Bahram Rangipour - University of New Brunswick - 5/20/12 - 6/6/12

Short Term Visitors

Rodolphe Richard - Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne - 9/8/11 - 9/15/11
Christophe Pittet - University Marseille - 9/27/11 - 10/2/11
Joseph Marsano - University of Chicago - 10/9/11 - 10/22/11
Federico Pellarin - University Saint-Etienne - 10/8/11 - 10/15/11
Dominic Dotterrer - University of Toronto - 11/1/1 - 11/5/11
Yitzhak Katznelson - Stanford - 11/28/11 - 12/2/11
Pablo Suarez-Serrato - Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico - 1/9/12 - 1/14/12
Yared Nigussie - East Tennessee State University - 1/13/12 - 1/18/12
Julianne Rainbolt - St. Louis University - 1/29/12 - 2/3/12
Yulong Xing - University of Tennessee - 2/15/12 - 2/25/12
Amalendu Krishna - Tata Institute - 3/18/12 - 3/25/12
Xuming Xie - Morgan State University - 3/18/12 - 3/23/12
Tetsu Mizumachi - Kyushu University - 3/19/12 - 3/24/12
Ruben Sanchez-Garcia - University of Southampton - 4/21/12 - 4/28/12
Jianya Liu - Shandong University - 4/30/12 - 5/16/12
Sabarish Chakravarty - University of Colorado - 5/26/12 - 6/2/12

Latest News

Alain Connes to be OSU Distinguished Professor of Mathematics

Alain Connes of the Collège de France and IHES, is joining the OSU mathematics department as Distinguished Professor of Mathematics. Dr. Connes will present a colloquium talk on Shapes and spectra on May 9, 2012, 4:30 - 5:30 Smith Lab 1009. There will be a tea preceding this talk at 3:30 - 4:30 in MW 724. Dr. Connes will also present at the Noncommutative Geometry: Multiple Connections conference during May 7 - 18, 2012.

Richard Lyons to be MRI Distinguished Visitor May 6 - May 19, 2012

The MRI has invited Richard Lyons from Rutgers University as a Distinguished Visitor from May 6 - May 19, 2012. He will present a colloquium talk on Bicharacteristic finite groups on May 16, 2012, 4:30 - 5:30 in Smith Lab 1009. There will be a tea preceding this colloquium talk at 3:30 in MW 724.

2011-2012 Special Year Program

The Department of Mathematics at The Ohio State University, in conjunction with the Mathematics Research Institute, will be running a program during the 2011-2012 academic year entitled Interactions Between Ergodic Theory, Number Theory and Noncommutative Geometry.

The first workshop on Dynamics on Homogeneous Spaces and Number Theory will take place September 12 - 16, 2011 in CH 240. Organizers include Vitaly Bergelson, James Cogdell, Avner Friedman, Roman Holowinsky, Wenzhi Luo, Henri Moscovici and Nimish Shah.

The second workshop on Noncommutative Geometry: Multiple Connections will take place May 7 - 18, 2012. The first week will emphasize the links between Noncommutative Geometry and Number Theory while the second week will emphasize the links between Noncommutative Geometry and Ergodic Theory. Schedule of talks is to be determined.

Collaborative work among the fields of Ergodic Theory and Number Theory, with applications to quantum chaos in particular, has recently led to new and exciting results. At the same time, surprising links with Noncommutative Geometry have been established via an interesting connection between the operator algebra formalism of quantum statistical mechanics and arithmetic.